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Marathon Drugs Increases Price 70-Fold – 2/10/17 More predation by pharma. Marathon has gotten a decades old muscular dystrophy drug, deflazacort, approved and is charging $89,000 a year for it. It’s price in Europe is under $1500/year. Where are the free market forces? Why aren’t our elected officials protecting us from this egregious practice?

Promising New Prostate Cancer Treatment – 2/2/17 A new and very effective prostate cancer treatment, reported here, has a two-year relapse rate of around 25%. Though clearly not a cure, it has a major benefit in that, unlike all other treatments, it has no. Light fibres are inserted in the prostate, rather like a biopsy, and a light-sensitive drug is administered. The cancerous tissue is killed, and all else left alone. Would certainly be worth a try.

Hypertension Developing Late in Life Halves Onset of Dementia – 1/21/17 Research here indicate that people who develop hypertension in late in life has almost half the reate of dementia. Yet more proof that hypertension has a purpose and unless it is off the charts, is best left alone.

Lowest Stroke Rates in Older Baby Boomers; Younger People Rising– 9/12/16 reports the American Heart Association, here. There could be numerous factors at work. Less smoking among the baby boomers and less healthy diet among the young would be our guess.

Sugar Lobby Promotes Sugar– 11/13/16 Surreal. JAMA reports here that the sugar lobby has been systematically attempting to put the blame for heart diseases on something other than sugar. What were they supposed to do? They’re the sugar lobby. The real question is, “Why did Standard Medicine buy it?”

Zika Breakthrough– 8/30/16 Reported here and elsewhere, two existing (already approved) drugs appear to be effective against Zika. If this pans out, it will speed things up immeasurably.

AHA Limits Added Sugar– 8/17/16 A sensible recommendation from the American Heart Association limits sugar for children aged 2-18 to fewer than 6 teaspoons a day. Paper here. A better recommendation: Fewer than 0 teaspoons added sugar per day for all children aged 0-110.

Calcium Supplements Linked to Dementia– 8/17/16 A report in the journal Neurology, here, links calcium supplements to dementia in some groups of women. The risk, alarmingly, is double for this group.

Suppression of Antioxidants Kills Pancreatic Cancer cells– 7/28/16 Researchers at Cold Springs Harbor Labs find that antioxidants are, in some cases, aiding cancer, and by suppressing the antioxidants, the oxidants are then able to kill the cancer. Link here.

High Cholesterol Found to be Cancer Protective– 7/9/16 A study presented at a British Cardiovascular Society Conference, link here, finds that high cholesterol is significantly protective for four common cancers: breast, prostate, lung, and colorectal. Reasons for this are unknown.

Zinc Acetate Lozenges Reduce Length of Common Cold– 7/6/16 Zinc for a cold is a Dr. Mike favorite. Here’s some science to back it up. A study published here finds that Zinc Acetate Lozenges shorten common colds by three days.

BMJ Article: Bad Cholesterol Isn’t Bad After All– 6/13/16 This is huge. In BMJ Open, here, a peer reviewed study finds that high “bad” cholesterol, aka LDL-cholesterol, is inversely associated with mortality. Higher levels=less death. The stuff is good for you. This is heresy of the first water. Expect a huge blow-back. The lipid hypothysis—that high LDL cholesterol causes heart disease—is ingrained in the medical community like an eleventh commandment. It has never been proven, and kudos to BMJ for daring to run this article. (We would crow that we have repeatedly posted that the dangers of LDL cholesterol were nonexistent, but we will be nice and refrain.)

Stem Cell Injection Reversed Strokes– 6/6/16 At Stanford, reported here, stroke patients receiving injection of mesenchymal stem cells directly into the brain experienced, in some cases, dramatic improvement. If this research holds up, this is an astounding result. “This wasn’t just, ‘They couldn’t move their thumb, and now they can.’ Patients who were in wheelchairs are walking now,” said lead researcher Steinberg.

Bariactric Surgery Now Recommended for Diabetes– 5/26/16 The American Diabetes Association (ADA), and other groups, have now endorsed bariactric surgery (stomach stapling) as a treatment for adult onset or type 2 diabetes (ADOM). We are not making this up. Report here. Of course the ADA dietary recommendations are almost guaranteed to prolong AODM, so we suppose some sort of strange logic is at work here. For the surgery-free, drug-free Quantitative Medicine method, click here.

Low Salt May Be Dangerous – 5/20/16 The prestigious British journal Lancet reports here that low salt intake is more dangerous than high intake. This is heresy, of course, and the article, the magazine, and the authors have already been condemned and will be burnt at the stake. The QM view is that high salt intake is a fairly minor factor. In this article, high intake is worse only for those with high blood pressure, whereas low salt intake is dangerous to those with high blood pressure, and those with normal blood pressure. Again, standard-practice medicine has been making things worse.

JAMA Discovers QM – 5/19/16 The prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) reports here that secession of of smoking, non-heavy drinking, and exercise reduce cancer. Now while it’s wonderful that they have now seen the light, or at least are circling around it, hasn’t this been obvious for the last 50 years? They studied only white males. Are they setting us up for a sequel? Let’s spoil that one: it works for everybody.

Calcium/Vitamin D Causes a Stroke or Heart Attack for Each Fracture prevented – 5/12/16 From a Norwegian study reported here, “Our analysis shows that if 100,000 65-year-old women take 1000 mg calcium every day, 5890 hip fractures and 3820 other fractures would be prevented. On the other hand, as many as 5917 heart attacks and 4373 strokes could be caused.” A horrid tradeoff made worse by the fact that osteoporosis is easily prevented and reversed with no supplements needed. See posts here, here, and here

Medical Error Third Leading Cause of Death in U.S. – 5/3/16 This is not news. As a leading cause of death in hospitals,medical error has been a focal area for almost 20 years. However, findings published here in the British Medical Journal.indicate the the problem is far from solved. Deaths due to medical error represent around 10% of deaths, some 250,000. One problem, according to the article, is that adequate records aren’t kept: the deaths are often attributed to something else. Best strategy: stay out of hospitals.

Big Pharma to World: Take Something! – 4/21/16 From JAMA, here, a trial was conducted for patients who couldn’t tolerate stains.(42%, in fact). The “solution” was to give them ezetimibe, a drug with no known benefit and some probably harm, a drug currently approved for a very, very narrow cohort of off-the-charts high cholesterol. Only 27% could not stand this drug, so the trial was considered a success. The drug industry seems insistent on cramming ezetimibe down our throats. To even embark on this strange experiment shows a callousness and disregard for patient benefit that surprises even us.

Is Fructose Highly Dangerous? – 4/21/16 Maybe. From UCLA we have a finding that fructose is linked to detrimental changes to hundreds of brain genes. Press release here. Scary stuff, and it makes some sense. The body goes to a lot of trouble to keep dietary fructose out of circulation, converting most of it to a concentrated form of glucose called glycogen, and rapidly removing any excess that does get into circulation. The reason for this aversion to fructose is not known, but the research sited above may provide a significant clue. Besides a major sugar component of fruit, table sugar is a 50-50 mix of fructose and glucose, as is high-fructose corn syrup, a ubiquitous food additive.

Are Proton Pump Inhibitors Overprescribed? – 4/15/16 A new report In the Journal of the American Society of Nephrolog seems to indicate that long term use of proton pump inhibitors, which significant reduce stomach acidity, causes increased kidney disease. Such drugs are widely prescribed and are also available over-the-counter. Though likely safe for short-term use, longer term consumption seems to have problems.

FDA Pulls Plug on Combo Drug – 4/15/16 In a rare glimmer of sanity, the FDA has withdrawn approval on a drug called Niaspan, which is a combination of statins and niacin. The approval was made in 1997. Given that is know that statins are practically useless, and that niacin actually increases heart problems, you may wonder what they were waiting for. So do we.Might they now consider the rest of the dangerous drugs out there? Details here.

Interesting Alzheimer’s-Insulin Result – 4/13/16 An NYU business school researcher has connected some interesting dots. It is well know that high insulin is involved in Alzheimers, but the connection wasn’t clear. It seems that the enzyme that breaks down insulin is the same one that breaks down amyloid-beta plaque, the tangled mess that is a hallmark of Alzheimer’s. Schiller’s idea is that perhaps the all the enzyme resources are spent on the high insulin, and the amyoid-beta doesn’t get removed. Details here.

Another Early Cancer Detection Breakthrough – 4/8/16 Researchers at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH, have created an optical biosensor for cancer detection that is a million times more sensitive than previous versions, pointing the way toward an effective early detection system for cancer and other illnesses.This might greatly improve early detection, which is ket to fighting cancer.Details here.

Choral Singing May Reduce Cancer – 4/5/16Researchers in Wales have determined that choral group singing improves levels of several anti-cancer hormones and biochemicals. Paper can be found here. In view of the next news item, the song Java Jive should probably be included in the repertoire.

Coffee Reduces Colorectal Cancer 50% – 4/1/16 Researchers at USC report “We found that drinking coffee is associated with lower risk of colorectal cancer, and the more coffee consumed, the lower the risk.” The press release is here. Dramatics reductions of up to 50% were seen. This area has been controversial for 20 years. The mechanism of cancer prevention is unknown, though it doesn’t seem to be caffeine, as decaf works as well.

Early Cancer Detection Breakthrough – 3/29/16Researchers at UCLA have developed a PET probe capable of producing far better images in certain types of cancers. With cancer, early detection is key. Clinical trials of the procedure may begin this year. Further info here.

Blonds Found to Be Non-Dumb – 3/23/16 A study here has found that blonds have a slightly higher IQ that non-blond people.Quoting,”Blonde women have a higher mean IQ than women with brown, red and black hair. Blondes are more likely classified as geniuses and less likely to have extremely low IQ.” It is hard to predict what researchers will think of to do research on. How about: “Do Blonds Have More Fun?”

Meal Time More Important Than Previously Thought – 3/17/16 Every traveler know that disrupting the circadian rhythm—the sleep cycle— is no picnic. New research from the Weizmann Institute indicates that not only is the body locked into this cycle, but even our mitochondria are. Mitochondria are tiny bacterial like cells found within almost all our own cells that convert the food we eat to energy. They apparently have time-driven hungry states, wherein they are ready and willing to convert the food to energy, and sleepy state as well. This means having meals at a regular time is more critical than previously thought.

Alzheimer’s and Brain Research – 3/17/16 There are almost daily reports of discoveries or possible breakthroughs involving Alzheimer’s and the brain. Just today, there are three such reports, all on mice, and so it is unknown if the results would carry over. There are reports of new neurons grown from stem cells, lost memories reactivate through light flashes, and increasing available neural energy by injecting pyruvate, an intermediate of glucose metabolism. A very active area.

Antidepressants Increase Mortality – 3/16/16 A study from Auburn and University of Alabama show a slight increase in mortality with uses of second generation anti-depressants.Report here. Knowledge of this will likely offset any anti-depression benefit as well. I much stronger anti-depressant that features a very strong reduction of mortality is exercise.

Canadian Medicine Discovers Exercise – 3/14/16 Canadian Medical Association announces: “Many doctors and their patients aren’t aware that exercise is a treatment for these chronic conditions and can provide as much benefit as drugs or surgery, and typically with fewer harms.” Not really. It actually provides A LOT MORE benefit. Bit it’s a step for organized medicine. Next week: hot water.

Exercise Reduces Alzheimer’s 50% – 3/11/16 No surprise at our end. But here, another study demonstrates the most effect way to prevent Alzheimer’s.

Alzheimer’s Caused By Microbes? – 3/10/16 Researchers have reported that a virus and two types of bacteria are a major cause of Alzheimers. A microbial connection has been (and probably will remain) controversial. However, the causes of Alzheimer’s are not known.

Magic Pill Announced – 3/4/16 Drug companies adore lifelong drugs, and the latest “breakthrough” combines statins, blood pressure reducers, aspirin, and adult onset diabetes medication, and is called a Polypill. However none of these four have shown any mortality benefit, and all of them have serious side effects. But in combination, they are suddenly magical? The idea seems to be to get rid of screening and blood testa altogether, and put everyone over 50 on this pill. This idea is so bad, it would be praising it to call it crazy.

Breast Cancer Breakthrough – 3/3/16 A new drug combo is very effective against the HER-2 variant of breast cancer. A fourth of those treated saw dramatic reduction in tumor size, while in an additional 11% the tumor completely disappeared, in under two weeks. Details here.

Television Exposure Directly Linked To A Thin Body Ideal In Women – 2/22/16 The only real question here is: Are they paying grown-ups to come up with this? It’s a real study. Details here. What will they study next? How about: Driving Blindfolded May Increase Accident Risk.

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Useful Medical Gadgets – Measure and Monitor Yourself

At Quantitative Medicine, we love measurement. Want to be a QM do-it-yourselfer? Here is a selection of gadgetry, some useful, and some otherwise that I have tried out. Please let us know of any gadget we omitted and we will duly evaluate them and post a sequel.

Heart Rate Monitor.

This one is important for exercise. Specifically, it is important to know maximum heart rate, resting heart rate, and how much the heart rate goes down 1 minute after peak exercise. The ‘leader’ in heart rate monitors is Polar. The monitors are a bit pricey and not awfully user friendly.

The polar system involves a chest-strap, which some find uncomfortable. The chest strap transmits heart rate information to a watch, which displays it. You can have the simple display model for around $50, one that can download general data to a PC for around $70. You can get one that will record every heartbeat for around $250. The PC software is Windows only.

Ideally, every heartbeat of an exercise session should be recorded. This can reveal any heart abnormalities that occur under stress. However, the only Polar model that can do this, besides being pricey, is a bit cranky, and has a tendency to eat batteries. A better solution would be welcome. So far Polar is the only one that provides an exportable data stream that we can pool and analyze for statistical purposes across our patient population. Using this data we can also match heart rate response to varieties of exercise, patients fitness levels and as a predictor of future heart disease.

There are other watches that measure heart rate without the strap. These are significantly cheaper. You have to touch the watch and wait 5 seconds or so. This isn’t really adequate and can be inconvenient and inaccurate.

There are now Bluetooth chest straps that connect directly to smart phones. How well this works is unknown. Perhaps this is the way to go. Any readers that know about this please chime in.

Glucose Level.

I decided to track my glucose levels for a 24 hour period and bought a blood glucose meter intended for diabetic use. The procedure is to insert a test strip into the meter, and then obtain a drop of blood by ‘lancing’ your palm or finger. When the test strip touches the drop, it soaks up the blood and returns a result a few seconds later.

When the gadget arrived, I did three ‘lancings’, thus analyzing three separate drops of blood. Glucose levels ranged from 95 to 115. Hmmm. Next, I got a quite large drop of blood and wet three different test strips form the same drop, and got reading from 103 to 127. The test strip package insert seemed to indicate that the accuracy was within ±4 mg/dl. We would prefer 2, but the reality appears to be ±15.

I then called the manufacturer. The customer service people seemed to think this was a bit excessive and promised to send a new one. It arrived, and seemed to have about the same ±15 mg/dl performance. This degree of accuracy may be fine for a diabetic use, but it is rather useless for determine glucose to the accuracy I wanted. So into the trash went the glucose meters, (much to the relief of my palms and fingers).

EKG.

This gadget actually measures your electrocardiogram, a real one. Wonderful but a little pricey. Are you familiar with white-coat-syndrome, wherein your blood pressure or cortisol will shoot up in the presence of medical personel.

There is also anti-white-coat-syndrome, wherein your symptom disappears as soon as you get to the doctor’s office. You describe the now vanished affliction, but all you get is this: ‘He who self diagnoses himself has a quack for a doctor’ look.

Ever had your heart skip a beat, or a couple? It common and almost always harmless, but scary, and of course, it would be nice if the doctor would take it seriously.

This gadget, also by Omron, could solve the problem. It works by holding it in you right hand, and pressing it to your chest under your left breast, (or where one would be if you were a woman, but are not). If duly records a 30 second EKG, and even displays it. The data can be transferred to a PC (C- for the software), printed and sent to the doctor. So far, the doctor I showed it to, pronounced it to be a genuine, bona fide, useful EKG. The printout looks like this. Street price, around $250.

Cuff blood pressure.

This device consists of a doctor’s office like cuff that goes around the upper arm, and a machine that inflates it and make the measurements. It measure systolic and diastolic blood pressure as well as pulse rate. The official name for this device is sphygmomanometer. The leader appears to be Omron. I bought one. The cuff has to be positioned just so, but the machine will twarn you if you don’t have it right. It seems to be quite accurate and consistent. You see these same machines in doctor’s offices. Street price $65. Remember the ‘gold standard’ for diagnosing and certainly for managing high blood pressure is a 24 hour ambulatory monitor (around $1500) and next is a series of home monitor readings. The worst method of diagnosing and monitoring high blood pressure is medical-office based pressures. They are flat wrong.

Wrist blood pressure.

These are inexpensive, convenient, fast, and quite inaccurate. I bought one of the more reputable manufacturers models, and got systolic numbered ranging from 97 to 125 in one sitting. My actual resting systolic pressure in 115, so maybe this device is useful for determining the ballpark. Street price: $24-$75

Keto-sticks.

If you are doing a very low carb diet, you might be interested in knowing if you are in ‘ketosis’. There is nothing wrong or dangerous about ketosis. If the liver cannot make enough glucose for the brain, it will make ketones as a back-up supply. This is ketosis. The brain functions perfectly well on ketones. It may, in fact, functions better. Very low card diets are sometimes recommended for people with Alzheimer’s. I have never tried these out. Cost is around 10¢ per strip. Keep in mind that some people’s liver is so adept at gluconeogenesis – making new glucose molecules out of anything handy to the liver – that they never go into true ketosis absent full-blown long-term fasting.

BAC level.

Not exactly a medical test, but worth a mention. I decided to see if I could learn to guess my blood alcohol. I bought 4 $100 premium blood alcohol BAC meters. The range in the California for ‘legal’ driving is 0.08%. Anyone with that much alcohol in their blood is definitely tipsy and shouldn’t be driving. Many European countries have a limit of 0.05%, and some have a max of 0. Of my four premium meters, two gave identical readings, one read 0.02 higher and one 0.04 higher. Come on, 0.04 is halfway to jail. No way to tell which was right. I then bought a $300 meter. This one measures to an additional decimal place and is, at least according to the sales pitch, widely used by police forces. So I trust it. In any case, I have managed to calibrate myself. I can guess my blood alcohol content to within 0.005%, and would bet on it. Dr. Mike can guess his to 0.0000%. He doesn’t drink. I am now working on associating blood alcohol level with success at repeating ‘sphygmomanometer’. Will keep you posted.

Lovely and so appropriate for Sunday reading! And the last bit is particularly funny. Thankyou for making me laugh.
Starting my ‘intensive driving course’ soon I am now planning to confront my advance driving instructor (during final lessons on the motorway) by asking him: – “And what are you going to tell me about … sphygmomanometer”? As soon as I’ll finish saying this word (which I would have to memorise first!) I will quickly watch his face… as he may ask me back: – “What on earth is that”!?

My test results of course would be slightly better – 0.00000%.

As for other gadgets, do I really need to use Ear Plugs for long flights? Or it’s not necessary? Are they all good quality and reusable?

I still have old Mercury Thermometer at home. Hardly used. Is it okay to continue to use it, if needed? Or there are others and the best? What temperature is considered to be normal? 36.6? My daddy told me when I was little…

It is fine to use it. For the record, absent disease, almost all of my patients have a temperature lower than the reported normal of 98.6F/37C. There is a lot of diurnal variance that clouds this picture too. Dr. Mike

Can you tell me, is the Polar RS800 the only wrist unit capable of downloading R-to-R intervals? I currently use an RS400 and understand from the Polar literature that the tests the RS400 unit can perform (such as Own Optimizer) utilize R-to-R evaluation to come up with their version of an index. If the watch truly uses R-to-R, is there a way to get that info from the RS400?

BTW – even tough retail, these units are pricey, if you are patient and persistent, ebay sometimes has units you can get more reasonably. I was able to get (through separate purchases) the RS400, chest strap, foot pod and IR adapter for a total of ~$125 – retail at the time was closer to $300.

Can you tell me, in your experience, do the chest straps loose ability to conduct the electrical impulse from the heart? Mine seems to be getting finicky, sometimes loosing communication. I don’t use any conductive gels – just water to wet the strap. Can be annoying when I’m right at the peak of a great sprint, and then the signal drops.

Short version: even with the conducting gels they have to be replaced when the data gets flaky. And to some extent this doesn’t make sense as the contact points are not always even where the band is wearing out. Yes, you need to change the chest straps. Polar; can’t live with it, can’t live without it. Dr. Mike

So – managed to get my hands on an RS800. I am starting to look at my R-R data and have been looking into (web surfing) metrics derived from the data. I also see that Polar software (Protrainer 5) can show a summary that seems to calculate many of the metrics I have stumbled upon like RMSSD, pNN50, and so on. Do you have any suggestions on metrics to monitor – I’m pretty good with computers, so I can work with raw data files from the watch as well. Thanks,

I was going to do an entire blog site just about heart rate based training; I don’t have time. However, know that the details of the workout and your metabolic response to training and life is in that data. Let me illustrate, take 20/10 rowing intervals as an example: by looking at the heart rate crescendo you can see if you are truly maxing out your sequence. If you are dogging it even a little you will see a nice little stair step of crescendo from the fist through the nth. If you see the crest after the 3-5th interval you are probably either, and this is where more data comes in, either holding back or fried. (Humans are such that, believe it or not, you cannot always tell just by what you think you have done.) You unpack this by cutting the number of intervals down and switching to some kind of linear scale like watts to assess output and fix the number of strokes in the 20 second work period. You can then begin to see the actual work product against the heart rate response and peak. Other markers like recovery and recovery plateau’s also provide information on whether you were tired when you started or dehydrated for example. Jim, this whole area is very dense. For now this will have to do as a point of encouragement to start experimenting. Get clearance from you doc before intense interval training. Dr. Mike

I would like to consider now buying Heart Rate Monitor.
Which of the following two is the most suitable?
Advice would be much appreciated.

1. Polar H7 Bluetooth 4.0 Heart Rate Sensor. Set for
iPhone 4S/S – ?

2. Samsung Heart Rate Monitor Band E1-HH10 – ?
(“Monitor and adjust the intensity of your exercise.
Whether walking, running, or cycling, your
smartphone will monitor your heart-rate and
provide you with information in real time for a more
efficient and safe work-out”).

Hi Helene,
I haven’t worked with the Samsung band but have used Polar in various iterations thousands of times. I am always amazed as are my patients how frustrating the Polar software can be and how unhelpful their documentation tends to be. However, when it comes to accurate usable heart rate data the Polar stuff usually comes through. I am always on the lookout for better but that is the state of my current experience. I have used several other brands and wound up going back to Polar. All of that said I have no experience with Samsung. If you purchase the Samsung I would love to hear your experience. Thank you for your role in the dialog. Dr. Mike PS I will probably wind up with an Apple watch just to see what I can get out of that.

Thankyou, Doctor. I am very grateful to you for reminder of the new Apple iWatch (not on sale here until 24 April).

Of course, I don’t want now either Samsung, or Polar Bands! Far better when something comfortably fits on your wrist and, as I already understood, the wrist is a convenient area for collecting data. Would be very sophisticated heart rate sensor (if it can even send my heart beat!). I also like weekly summary on Calorie burn – provided the battery charged overnight, as it only lasts for about 18 hours (would be interesting what the feedback will be on this).

All other features are also extremely useful. Rain in 10 minutes? I just can look for weather forecast!

Another instrument – very compact and easy to use, is the pulse oximeter to measure % saturation of O2. I use it on hiking trips to altitude both at rest and when powering uphill. It’s also valuable for flying in light unpressurized aircraft.

Hi Jim,
As you know I have a genetic problem with evolving emphysema and check my ox sat occasionally; especially when sprinting hills. Thus I am curious: how low have you noted your ox sat to be and under what conditions do you most desaturate? Dr. Mike

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